Map of the Original Grants of Village Lots from the Dutch West India Company to the Inhabitants of New-Amsterdam, (Now New-York.)

Title

Map of the Original Grants of Village Lots from the Dutch West India Company to the Inhabitants of New-Amsterdam, (Now New-York.)

Date

1642

Description

Title continues: "lying below the present line of Wall Street. Grants commencing 1642."

Facsimile of map showing "the first conception of property in the Toune of Manhattan, or New Amsterdam," with street names, plat owners, and some updating of names of streets by Henry Dunreath Tyler, the nineteenth-century publisher who reproduced the map. Stamped on bottom of map:"Old New York," followed by handwritten note, "250 years ago." Attached descriptive label at the bottom left indicates title as, "The 'Dutch Map,' 1642." Handwritten on the back in pencil, "Gift of R. N. Taintor."

Dimensions

19 x 24 in.

Notes

Published by Dunreath Publishing Company. At the upper left is a number 1 and also on the note of explanation at the bottom attached to the facsimile. It is not certain to what these numbers refer. Possibly a set of facsimiles reproduced by Dunreath that were once produced in what is commonly called D. T. Valentine's Manual of New York published mainly in the 1850s.

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